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‘“STANDARDS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS – SHARED VISION FOR A BETTER WORLD”.
Bureau of Indian Standards is a statutory body functioning under the aegis of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India. It operates various schemes like Product Certification , Management Systems Certification, Hall Marking of Gold and Silver Jewellery/Artefacts and Laboratory Services for the benefit of the industry and in turn aiming at consumer protection.
Each year on 14 October, the members of the IEC, ISO and ITU celebrate World Standards Day, which is a means of paying tribute to the collaborative efforts of the thousands of experts worldwide who develop the voluntary technical agreements that are published as international standards. As a part of World Standards Day BIS Southern Regional Office, Chennai was lighted with Tricolour and Messages on World Standards Day Theme and Mandatory Certification were displayed through Digital Screens for the Public.
On October 14, 2022, Southern Regional Office of Bureau of Indian Standards conducted the WSD 2022, Manak Mahotsav event at Anna Administrative Staff College, Mahizhampoo, 1 P.S, 163/1 P.S, Kumarasamy Raja Salai , Anna Salai, Raja Annamalai Puram, Chennai - 600028.
Representatives of Industry associations, manufacturers, BIS Licensees, Regulatory bodies, Industry experts, Government representatives and stakeholders of BIS were present in the function to celebrate World Standards Day on the theme “STANDARDS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS – SHARED VISION FOR A BETTER WORLD”.
Shri USP Yadav ,Scientist F & Deputy Director General , BIS, during his Welcome speech he stressed upon the importance of standardization and the role it is playing in everyone’s life. He also enlightened the audience on pre evolution of standards from Indus Valley Civilization to contemporary modern world and the importance of standardization in bringing commercial light to innovations and in protecting consumer rights. He informed the role of Standards in for sustainable development goals for a better world.
Dr.R.Velraj, Vice Chancellor, Anna University was the Chief Guest of WSD 2022 and gave the inaugural speech. During his speech he enlightened the audience through valuable insights os sustainability and the insistence of time tested methods. He also correlated the concepts of Entropy, System and Surrounds from thermodynamics to the contemporary world.He also mentioned that when one makes the syetm perfect , the disorder in the surrounding increases and the challenge is to keep the disorder to minimum.
Dr.V.Thiruppugazh, IAS ; Former Additional Secretary, Government of India & Head –Chennai Metro Flood Management Committee was the Chairman of the Technical Session which included the panel of Guest Speakers who are featured experts from various fields. During his speech , Dr.V.Thiruppugazh mentioned the interconnection of SDGs to Sendai Framework.he stressed that all the 17 SDGs are interconnected and could be able to achieve by 2020 to prevent economic and life loss.
Dr.S.Janakarajan, Former Professor, MIDS & President SaciWATERS Hyderabad spoke on Clean water and sanitization; His speech revolved around the incerasing water stress and decreasing water supply He specifically sopke about the Indias water scenario that India ranks 50th position in the world’s per capita water availability. India possess 4% of world’s renewable water resource.He also touchedupon issues relating to available water for agricultural water and cited the reasons for increasing concerns of unsustainability of water use and availability.
Shri Ramesh Gardas, Professor, IIT-Madras spoke on Benign solvents for sustainable chemical and technological developments. He explained his upon his work on the topic and also explained the importance of integrating fundamental sciences with engineering to create sustainable solutions is the need for the hour.
Shri S.Kumaraswamy, Former Executive Director, Neyveli Lignite Corporation spoke on Good practicies in Mining insdustry and explained how SDGs are being adopted in mining industry.He also touched upon the concept of Green Mining and Integrated farming system.
Earlier Smt.G.Bhavani, Scientist-E, Director & Head  read the WSD Messages. She explained the uniqueness of BIS amoung the rest of National Standards Bodies across the world.
Smt.Meenakshi Ganesan,Scientist-F & Head  informed the significance of WSD in creating awareness about the standards across the globe. She also illustrated each sustainable developmental goal with a focus on Indian Scenario citing various organisations and legislations.
The programme ended with vote of thanks by Shri Durga Prasad,Scientist-B.
This stated in a press release issued by the Shri. H.Ajay Khanna Deputy Director-Marketing & Consumer Affairs.